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Hasbro, which owns the intellectual property rights to the classic board game, released its own test version of online Scrabble earlier this year, opening the slow and clunky beta Facebook app to an indifferent public last week. So far, it has about 9,000 users in the U.S. and Canada...
...diary. I write down everything I consume, with great detail. I had a single packet of ketchup with my eggs the other morning and 4 oz. (113 g) of green-tea-flavored frozen yogurt with my daughter two days before that. I started the diary because I wanted to test the striking new results of a paper published in the August issue of American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Scientists at several clinical-research centers in the U.S. found that dieters who kept a food diary lost twice as much weight as those who didn...
...actions and accomplishments, not our rhetoric - and certainly not our jewelry - that define us as patriots. The flag pin on your cover has been a lightning rod for controversy during the presidential campaign, but it is not a litmus test for patriotism. Francis Scott Key wrote of the Stars and Stripes waving "o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave," not o'er the Brooks Brothers lapel. Tracy Leverton, Vienna...
...take a principled stand on important national issues. But that image-polishing may have been undermined by the swirl of allegations of backroom dealing and the dismal spectacle surrounding the confidence vote. Singh's coalition government may be secure for now, but the Congress Party will face another test next year in parliamentary elections. Politicians can only hope India's long-suffering voters are willing to turn a blind eye to the messy foibles of their elected representatives one more time...
...long ago, I went to a friend's house here in Northern California for a wine tasting. The host had already put the wines, which ranged from $12 to $200 a bottle, into burlap bags - the better to test the palates of the wine-loving guests...